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Miya Masaoka: Unsquare & Koto Accordion

by Kurt Gottschalk
October 12, 2008

Maybe MondayUnsquareIntakt 2008 There are only a handful of koto players in the free improv world, but among them Miya Masaoka has set herself apart. Her qualities include a strong compositional sense, even when creating in the moment. It's something she shares with guitarist Fred Frith and saxophonist ...

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Rudy Van Gelder Editions: Red Garland, Horace Silver, Freddie Redd

by Tom Greenland
October 9, 2008

For almost a decade, the protean recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder has been remastering his analog masters into 24-bit digital format, affording fans an enhanced audio experience and/or a chance to rediscover previously hard-to-find or overlooked classics. Albums by three pianists--Red Garland's 1957 Soul Junction, Horace Silver's 1958 Further Explorations by the Horace Silver Quintet and ...

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Joe Morris: What You Can Throw & The Story of Mankind

by Clifford Allen
October 7, 2008

When guitarist Joe Morris began playing contrabass in outfits with alto saxophonist Rob Brown, drummer Whit Dickey and others at the beginning of the 2000s, it might have struck some as a surprise. But whatever the differences in requirements between those two instruments, Morris' central axis as both player and composer is rhythm birthing ...

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Baritone Saxophones: Joe Temperley, Dale Fielder, George Haslam, Denis Diblasio & Jam Session

by George Kanzler
October 6, 2008

Take cover behind a bass clef and yell "Timbre" and hearken to six baritone saxophonists featured on five albums. There area few octet tracks on Joe Temperley's CD, but also quartets and duets, and the other CDs range from quartet to sextet--with another bass clef horn, the trombone, featured in Denis DiBlasio's Quintet and ...

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Scott Tinkler: The Massacre of the Ego, The Garden of Forking Paths, Backwards & Lost Thoughts

by Kurt Gottschalk
September 14, 2008

The Antripodean Collective The Massacre of the Egos Extreme 2008 Marc Hannaford with Scott Tinkler, Ken Edie & Philip Rex The Garden of Forking Paths Extreme 2007 Scott Tinkler Backwards ...

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Arttu Takalo and Jarmo Saari: Brothers in Sound

by Anthony Shaw
September 10, 2008

To say that Finnish musicians Arttu Takalo and Jarmo Saari are joined at the hip is going a little too far, but the similarity of their trajectories over the past 15 years is incontrovertible. Having met during their study years at the Sibelius Academy of Music, cradle for many a budding jazz musician in the country, ...

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Chris McGregor: Very Urgent, Up to Earth & Eclipse at Dawn

by A. Henkin
September 7, 2008

Chris McGregor Group Very Urgent Fledg'ling 2008 Chris McGregor Septet Up to Earth Fledg'ling 2008 Brotherhood of Breath Eclipse at Dawn Cuneiform 2007

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Bud Powell: Live at the Blue Note Cafe, Paris 1961 & In Copenhagen

by George Kanzler
September 7, 2008

Bud Powell Live at the Blue Note Cafe, Paris 1961 ESP-Disk 2008 Bud Powell In Copenhagen Storyville 2008 Pianist Bud Powell's music is often buried in his ...

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Trombone Solos: Wolter Wierbos & Denis Beuret

by Fred Bouchard
September 7, 2008

Wolter Wierbos 3 Trombone Solos DolFijn 2008 Denis Beuret Alone Leo 2008 Though the vocalizing of jazz lines and effects on wind instruments is famously attributed to ...

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